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I absolutely agree that every city should be doing something like this, but disagree completely that ‘every city… should hire’ [via BLDGBLOG<\/a>] Packard Jennings<\/a> and Steve Lambert<\/a>. Their illustrative style speaks West Coast to me, and wouldn’t translate well to say a place like Detroit or Iowa City, for example. The whole art-in-bus-kiosks thing is also nothing new – Bob Hansman<\/a> has been running City Faces in my hometown of St. Louis for over a decade now, which gives inner-city kids (mostly Black youth, not white professional illustrators) a chance to express themselves in bus stop lightboxes.<\/p>\n The images are also somewhat outdated: the Mobile office building concept was first popularized in The Crimson Permanent Assurance<\/em><\/a>, care of Terry Gilliam. I also understand those underground motorways are supposed to give the five bicyclists up top a little more comfort (which I agree with for probably completely separate reasons!), but underground motorways are nothing new to Moscow<\/a>!<\/p>\n Still! I love the playfulness of the project and do wish I ran into more works like this in public spaces in all the cities I visit and the one I live in. But, San Francisco, I’m sorry there’s especially one reason you and I will never get along, and I think you know what<\/a> I’m talking<\/a> about<\/a>.<\/p>\n I absolutely agree that every city should be doing something like this, but disagree completely that ‘every city… should hire’ [via BLDGBLOG] Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert. Their illustrative style speaks West Coast to me, and wouldn’t translate well to say a place like Detroit or Iowa City, for example. The whole art-in-bus-kiosks thing is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,17],"tags":[173],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-stuffs","tag-san-francisco"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/1910896232_aa8a7c3053_b.jpg?fit=500%2C716&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-mc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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